pige

See also: pigé and pígé

Danish

Etymology

Compare (late) Old Norse píka, Swedish piga. Possibly borrowed from Finnish piika (“maid, girl”) (or the other way around).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːɣə/, [ˈpʰiːi]

Noun

pige c (singular definite pigen, plural indefinite piger)

1. girl (a female child or adolescent)

   Synonyms: mø (archaic), tøs (hypocoristic or derogatory)

2. (embellishing or patronizing) girl, woman (a female adult, underplaying the age)

   Synonym: kvinde

3. girl, girlfriend (a woman as a potential or actual sexual partner)

   Synonyms: dame, kæreste

4. girl, daughter (a female person one is the parent of)

   Synonym: datter

5. girl, maid (a woman serving in a private household)

   Synonym: stuepige

Declension

Declension of pige

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pige	pigen	piger	pigerne
genitive	piges	pigens	pigers	pigernes

Descendants

• → Icelandic: pía
• Norwegian Bokmål: pike

References

• “pige” in Den Danske Ordbog
• pige on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piʒ/

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Verb

pige

1. inflection of piger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• pigé

Noun

pige f (plural piges)

1. measure
   • 1865, Lorédan Larchey, Les Excentricités du langage, page 249:

     La pige est chez les ouvriers un morceau de bois donnant la longueur indiquée par le plan.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (colloquial) year (of age)

   du haut de ses trente piges ― in his/her thirties

   • 2024 July 15, Romain Cantenot, “Ma nouvelle vie d'artiste : la joie des reconvertis du Festival”, in La Provence, page 5:

     C’est un zébulon empaqueté dans la carcasse d’un bonhomme de 53 piges dont une bonne moitié passée sous les yeux du public.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (colloquial) year (period of time in general)

Derived terms

• à la pige

Further reading

• “pige”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

pigē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pigeō